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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

This is a film set during the Nazi holocaust. Bruno’s father is am officer in the Nazis and the family is sent to the countryside to be close to his new posting. When Bruno is exploring he finds a boy of a similar age called Shmuel, who is kept on the other side of a fence and wears what look like striped pyjamas.

Bruno and Shmeul make friends and Bruno eventually manages to find a way through the fence to join his friend when Shmeul can’t find his father. To help blend in Bruno wears striped pyjamas when the look for the father in the different huts. – It does not end well.

7/10

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

In this sequel the couple from the first film, now have a teenage daughter applying to college, but their marriage is strained due to work pressures. They have to find a way to work things out.

4/10

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Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

This legal drama is about a divcing couple and their young son. The wife leaves the husband to bring up the child, but then decides she wants him back.

5/10

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Full Monty, The (1997)

A group on unemployed steel workers in Sheffield, start stripping to make money.

6/10

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Happy Prince, The (2018)

This film focuses on the end of Oscar Wilde’s life when he was exiled to France due to his imprisonment for being gay in England.  The film isn’t very funny and is a bit depressing.

2/10

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Birdcage, The (1996)

Robin Williams and Nathan Lane star as a couple who run and star in a drag club in this comedy film, when their son wants to introduce them to his girlfriend and her ultra conservative parents.

8/10

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Daddy Day Care (2003)

Two friends are made redundant and decided to set up a day care facilities so that their wives can go out to work.

6/10

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Pride (2014)

Based on a true story this comedy drama is about a group of gay and lesbian activists in London help out a small mining village in Wales during the mining strike in the 1980s.

7/10

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Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger (2012)

A new teacher starts at St. Bernadette’s Primary School in Coverntry. He joins the excitable teaching assistant Mr Poppy. The children are entered into a Christmas singing competition and have to go on a jorney to get there.

7/10

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Office Christmas Party (2016)

Office staff have a Christmas party when the boss wants to improve moral in the light of impending redundancies.

5/10